Figure 1.--Here I am with my little brother. We both wear short pants. I was 15 years old in 1963. Notice the sneakers and the pooch. |
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After I began school, my clothing changnged. I had been wearing rompers. For school I wore short pants. I did not immediately stop wearing rompers at home, but all my new outfits were short pants. I had different kinds of shorts. As a younger boy I wore bib-front shorts rather similar to rompers. I began wearing shirts rather than the blouses I often wore with rompers. As I got older I began wearing shorts without the straps. I wore shorts to school (with a smock), for play, and when dressing up. Short pants were still very popular in the 1950s. With the growing popularity of American jeans, shorts declined in poularity by the 1960s, especially during the cold winter weather. My brother wore both shorts and knickers befiore he began wearing long pants. Unlike my brother, I did not wear knickers as a boy. I wore rompers and shorts. Knickers had had gone out of style before I was old enough to wear them. My little brother also commonly wore shorts. I did not have lomg pants until my teens, even for winter wear.
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